OPEN ACOUSTIC DEVICES

Open Acoustic Devices designs, supports, and deploys open-source acoustic hardware and software for our user community, as well as our own environmental and wildlife monitoring projects... Our main product is AudioMoth, a low-cost, open-source acoustic monitoring device which has been used in multiple applications, including automating the search for an elusive insect species, monitoring poaching by gunshot and listening for ultrasonic bat calls... Open Acoustic Devices started as a research project at the University of Southampton, under co-supervision of Alex Rogers, Jake Snaddon and Patrick Doncaster. Andy Hill led the hardware development, Peter Prince the software development, Evelyn Piña Covarrubias the field tests, and Lydia Katsis the sound analysis. Our original project involved monitoring anthropogenic disturbances in the tropical forests of Belize. We deployed AudioMoths to listen for sounds of shotguns that would identify poaching hotspots in nature reserves. You can..